In an age of fabricated ‘holidays’, each day of the year now features celebrations for hamburgers, pirates, and pancakes, just to name a few. The crowded calendar suggests it was perhaps inevitable that emojis would eventually get recognized as well.

The holiday, to the extent it can actually be considered one, was the brainchild of Jeremy Burge. The London-based founder of a site called Emojipedia created it two years ago on Twitter and giving the day its own Twitter account.

Emoji and social media… one wouldn’t be the same without the other. Yes! Everyone loves emoji, and it’s hard to find someone who hasn’t ever used one. And now, users on Twitter get to use 72 new ones as part of the release of Unicode 9.0.

Improve your text life with imoji stickers. Imoji is the place to search, share and discover stickers. Create your own and search through MILLIONS of imoji stickers created by the community. Now there’s a sticker for every conversation.

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